Scott Walker’s Plan to Replace Obamacare: The Best, to Date, from the 2016 Field

National Review ^ | 08/19/2015 | The Editors

[Riflema]

Here's a problem: the guaranteed issue part. In order for a new insurer to take note of previous coverage, there need to be certain minimal coverages (otherwise sham policies would become available simply to offer preexisting coverage). Right away, back to where we are today, a collection of minimum, set by government and, like the tax code, subject to every interest groups lobbying.

Better we address some of the problems in the medicine business itself (see Denninger) and return to a genuinely free marketplace.

[TADSLOS]

Walker is Jeb without the Bush pedigree. The GOPe’s puppet version of the “common man”.

[gov_bean_ counter]

No kidding.

[vmivol00]

Yes. Very simply, it is not the job of the federal government to be involved in healthcare. Healthcare does not appear in the Constitution.

This is just a desperate plea for attention.

I specifically remember Walker criticizing Cruz for fighting against Obamacare almost two years ago. Now Walker has had a “Whitehouse Road” Conversion and has proceeded into fooling quite a few people into thinking he is a conservative warrior.

Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI): “I believe the Affordable Care Act is anything but affordable, and will have a negative impact on the economy of my state… But I don’t extend that to the point that we should shut down the government over it.”

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Yes. Very simply, it is not the job of the federal government to be involved in healthcare. Healthcare does not appear in the Constitution.

OK, how do you propose to get rid of medicaid and Medicare, or even Social Security?

[vmivol00]

We don’t need replacement to go back to the way things were prior to Obamacare.

The govt in the middle of all of this is the issue.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: The govt in the middle of all of this is the issue.

Then we STILL need replacement.

And oh BTW, NOBODY in this crop of candidates will propose taking away government role at all.

NOT TRUMP, NOT CRUZ, NOT CARSON.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Turn it over to the states over a period of 4 years. Get the Feds out of it completely, including taxes and funding

So, you would propose an overhaul of our payroll tax system, social security ( which is deducted together with Medicare from salaries ), force all Seniors currently on Medicare to go to a state run system, and close the Department of Health and Human Services?

Since you don’t like Walker’s proposal, tell me who among these crop of candidates will propose doing that... TRUMP? CRUZ? CARSON?

[trebb]

I like Cruz's "replacement" meme better - Wipe out every word of Obama Care...

Replacement schemes sound good when bumped against Obama Care, but still include way too much government interference. The reason that health care was even a candidate for government take over is because of decades of government interference in the first place.

[joe fonebone]

if you allow people to shop across state lines does that not become interstate commerce??

the fed regulate all interstate commerce...

just a thought

[arthurus]

That word “replace” is the fly in the ointment. It does NOT need to be replaced. The government must be removed entirely from any connection to health insurance and medicine. Were that to happen the only downside would be that millions of bureaucrats will lose their jobs. Other than that insurance will get radically cheaper as medicine-healthcare if you will- will become radically cheaper. Medicine will become a prestige profession again and attract the best and the brightest. Another major boost to cheap and ever better medicine would be the elimination of all federal government ties to education so that education would become cheaper and ever less encumbered by the weight of drivel and PC and redundant and useless staff.